Free Market Racism

Some thoughts on racism and the free market.

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[BrotherWoody1]

If Ron Paul were to be elected, doesn't that mean that a critical mass of the electorate support his ideas & policies? Aren't elections the formalization of the electorate's affirmation of the willingness to change the status-quo? Even if Paul isn't the perfect Libertarian candidate, wouldn't he take anarcho-capitalism further along than it would have been had Paul not been elected? Movement politics seem much more efficacious than the academic puritanism that political philosophers engender.

[XOmniverse]

@BrotherWoody1 It would simply mean that he was preferred over Obama, not that his outlook is appreciated or endorsed wholesale. I think ending the wars would be popular. I think he'd get a LOT of resistance on ending many government programs, though.

[hurrrrrrrrrrr]

That is not a good look...

[fede2]

i don't think it's the one-way street i interpret you make it out to be. culture and institutions inform *each other*.

[socrates856]

You hold a very positive view of the current state of affairs. I am not sure I agree. It's not like a racist will say "I don't hire you because you are of the wrong race". It's other things that are said. So it's not like we would revert to something more racist. There is still racism in the system and applied. And yes one can but hope that attitudes improve. Yet on youtube specifically there is an odd conflation between racists and anti-statist/libertarian views.

[DayTimes121]

@XOmniverse I made a video about fringeelements' racism. I am amazed at the comments I am getting. Many youtube libertarians can't comprehend how racial segregation conflicts with a society based on individual rights.

/watch?v=A-oAYVvf_-o

[borkoboyanov]

One question: What exactly do you mean when saying free market? Free market seems like a utopia! There will always be people stacking large piles of money, when those money translates almost immediately to chips for survival... to political power and even knowledge.

[john42t]

@CeltoSaxonKnight I believe of all liberal traditions, the "education" one is the most devastating of all. I don't think the world wars and the other catastrophes of the 20th century could have been possible without what liberals call "education" - that is keeping masses of adolescents in artificial dependency while confronting them with irrational ideologies.

[j1mmyZeta]

@CeltoSaxonKnight By 'education', they really mean reeducation.

[CeltoSaxonKnight]

Education, that supposed panacea, is the most sinister word on the planet today! In the context of cultural change it inevitably means indoctrinating people into holding a certain set of beliefs about the world considered 'progressive' or 'beneficial'. Education is only ever a good when based on firm, well-tested traditions that have arisen organically from a free people; never when based on some half-baked opinions & untested assertions.

Beware of those seeking to 'educate'!

[chitchcott]

Still one of my favourite youtubers. Keep it up bro

[gn0m1k]

Not sure if you heard the part in the documentary 'The Bomb in the Brain' about the amygdala blocking out rational thought of dissenting values, so people will not change due to reason alone.. but moreso a healthy environment growing up that is conducive to critical thinking/being mindful. Thoughts?